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		<p id="GUID-F2480289-F709-4F0B-B8A4-253A00106160">On the end-user machine, the following message might appear if the ArcGIS software cannot connect to the license manager:</p><pre purpose="pre" id="GUID-0F864C4F-2D54-404D-851D-C11F2CCF3DA4">The server (lmgrd) has not been started yet, or
the wrong port@host or license file is being used, or the
port or hostname in the license file has been changed.
Feature: ARC/INFO
Server Name: server1
License Path @server1
FLEXlm Error: -15, 10. System Error: 10061"WinSock: Connection refused."
There are two variations of this error.</pre>
		<div class="section1" id="GUID-A0A9658C-6BD9-4EE8-B46F-520321DF334E" purpose="section1"><h2> Error 1 </h2><pre purpose="pre" id="GUID-480A4E7F-F5F9-4F30-AB4E-0E4C10FF362F">FLEXlm Error: -15, 10. System Error: 10061"WinSock: Connection refused." </pre></div>
		<div class="section1" id="ESRI_SECTION1_2CBF86C5CBF74A2AA457635440B27BB7" purpose="section1"><h2> Error 2</h2><pre purpose="pre" id="GUID-9874FC28-488B-422E-AACC-D5B932C5A7EC">FLEXlm Error: -15, 29. System Error: 10061"Winsock: Connection refused."</pre></div>
		<div class="section1" id="ESRI_SECTION1_3221308475044920BFEDDC36C67D1C66" purpose="section1"><h2>Causes</h2><p id="GUID-4003E548-5A8B-4327-85CA-22F5FE8D66F7">
The ArcGIS License Manager is not running. This could be due to a number of reasons.  Check the status of the license manager and restart the license service if required.  View the debug log file for more information on errors.
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						<a class="xref" rel="0079/007900000008000000.htm" href="0079/007900000008000000.htm">Check the license server status</a></li><li purpose="li" id="LI_BA5D16A926FC4BD88524F93D1B366BFF"><a class="xref" rel="0079/00790000000q000000.htm" href="0079/00790000000q000000.htm">Diagnosing errors</a></li>
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